The mission of Sequoia ForestKeeper® is to protect and restore the ecosystems of the southern Sierra Nevada – including both the Sequoia National Forest and the Giant Sequoia National Monument – through monitoring, enforcement, education, and litigation.

By acting as the eyes, ears, and voice of the forest, SFK seeks to improve land management practices, to promote land
stewardship, to enforce existing laws and regulations, to implement public
awareness programs, and to offer assistance to local land management agencies.

Cleared areas can increase fire risk. Exotic
grasses carry flames faster and further grown when native vegetation is
cleared. Those same exotic grasses are the ladder fuel that causes
total devastation instead of the healthy mosaic pattern of fire
movement. Instead of removing woody material, money should be spent
finding a way to combat exotic grasses in an ecologically friendly
manner. The desert never burned before exotic grasses brought in by
grazing animals and their disturbance helped the grasses grow.

It completely exempts the use of pesticides
from the Endangered Species Act, effectively dooming hundreds of
endangered species to extinction and making it legal to kill any endangered species with a pesticide at almost any time.

Eliminates all protections under the Clean Water Act when toxic pesticides are sprayed directly into rivers and streams.

Guts
the consultation process required by Endangered Species Act on national
forests by allowing the U.S. Forest Service to rubber-stamp project
approvals without consulting with expert wildlife scientists at the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service about whether a project would put endangered
species in jeopardy of extinction.

Doubles the allowed acreage
for "categorical exclusions" under the National Environmental Policy Act
from 3,000 to 6,000 acres per project, allowing the Forest Service to
approve clearcuts under the guise of controlling insects and disease
outbreaks in national forests.

Eliminates public engagement,
environmental review of most Forest Service logging projects by creating
10 new categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy
Act for projects up to 6,000 acres in size.

Guts the
"extraordinary circumstances" protections under the National
Environmental Policy Act, allowing the Forest Service to approve
destructive projects without further review even if sensitive species
are present or the project is within a wilderness area.